Valerie Sing Turner
Job Title
Co-Director & Creative Lead

Valerie is the founder and Co-Artistic Producer of Visceral Visions, and a multidisciplinary artist who performs, writes, directs, dramaturges, and produces. An avid storyteller with a background in classical music (B.Mus, flute), dance (ballet, tap, jazz), acting, and magazine publishing, who works in theatre, opera, film/TV, voiceover, and the written word, Valerie is also the founder and creative visionary of CultureBrew.Art, and an acknowledged leader on issues of equity and decolonization in the Canadian arts sector. A recipient of the Enbridge playRites Award for Emerging Canadian Playwright and John Moffat + Larry Lillo Prize, she is a long-time member of Canadian Actors’ Equity, UBCP/ACTRA, and Playwrights Guild of Canada, and an alumnus of Banff Centre for the Arts’ Cultural Leadership program. Valerie was honoured to receive UBCP/ACTRA’s International Women’s Day Award for “outstanding contributions to the Union, the industry, and causes of social justice”, and in 2022, a Lieutenant Governor’s Platinum Jubilee Arts & Music Award in recognition of her “exceptional contributions to the arts” in BC.